The use of social media is replacing face-to-face interaction among many people in society. Do you think the advantages outweigh the advantages?

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not new in modern life, networking has attracted more and more public attention, especially with the advent of online social networking channels. Debatable as it is, the positive aspect of social media

use

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as a way to supersede face-to-face communication is somewhat superior to its downside. Given the fact that the current world is facing an increasing number of issues, it is sensible to believe in the dark side. Of the commonly-heard problems, the most serious of them is the fear that the human species, to whom emotions play a crucial role, might become robots, or

emotionless

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machines. Sitting in front of the computer, or holding

hand-held

small and light enough to be operated while you hold it in your hands

handheld

phones, for hours surfing the internet and reading Facebook news on a daily basis, users will sooner or later become more and more passive, ending up being couch potatoes, and are likely to forget the usefulness of in-person interaction.

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, we need to be optimistic as social media are not that bad. They will not turn us into machines that have no emotions. Provided that we live a healthy lifestyle with daily workouts, social networking sites, as the term suggests, will bring us closer and closer to one another simply because we are now living in a global village. Thousands of merits, including making friends with people from abroad, will result. All in all, the negatives of using social networks

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of traditional meeting and talking appear to be overtaken by the positives. Even conservative people, mostly

the old

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, find it hard to reject the power of social media. It is impossible to imagine how the human species of Homo sapiens

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have reached

had reached

this

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far without social networking in the strictest sense of the term.